#encounter

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#again #big #big ideas #causes #committed

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people. ↗

— Bob Keeshan

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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ↗

— Bob Keeshan

#contention #day #definition #encounter #every

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#angry #capacity #daily #daily life #deceitful

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#kind #must #physical #respond #will

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#comforts #companion #encountering #even #food

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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